These experiments are pretty cool, and we can learn a lot about the animal’s interactions without having to follow them around and hope they run into a scenario.
There’s also this video by Tom Scott about “VR for locusts” which goes into why these experiments are cool
youtube.com/watch?v=KRIBVykhpC4
The downside is you need to be careful extrapolating in case something about the VR setup influenced the results, but that’s also true for most other biology observation methods
soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 6 months ago
The mice can have a little VR. As a treat